[PATCH] C undefined behavior fix

dewar@gnat.com dewar@gnat.com
Fri Jan 4 04:15:00 GMT 2002


<<But this is not the memory model of C!  Adding an offset to a pointer
is an operation involving objects defined by the C language, and not
machine registers.  Sometimes, this makes a noticeable difference.
>>

Indeed Alex Stepanov notes that Ada unlike C, *does* have general pointer
arithmetic, assuming a linear address space, and finds the lack of this in
C a problem :-) :-)



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